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ppUS prosecutors have formally linked the arrest of a serving US Army soldier in December to a massive theft of US phone records from ATT and Verizon last yearppAuthorities arrested Cameron John Wagenius a US Army communications specialist in Texas on December 20 following a brief twopage grand jury indictment accusing the US serviceperson of two counts of unlawfully transferring confidential phone records Wagenius was later extradited to Washington stateppIn a new court filing on Friday US prosecutors confirmed that the charges against Wagenius are related to the earlier indictment of two alleged hackers Connor Moucka and John Binns who the US government accuse of multiple intrusions at cloud computing company Snowflake that saw the masstheft of data stored in its customer accounts The Snowflake customers whose data was stolen include ATT which had nearly all of its customer call records through 2024 exfiltrated from its Snowflake account and Verizon from whom a substantial cache of customer call logs was takenppUS Attorney Tessa Gorman told the Seattle court that both cases arise from the same computer intrusion and extortion and include some of the same stolen victim information and as such these cases rely on overlapping evidentiary material and legal process and arguably present common questions of law and factppThis is the first public acknowledgement by prosecutors that Wagenius charges are connected to last years breaches at cloud computing company Snowflake Security journalist Brian Krebs first reported on the link between Wagenius and the Snowflake hacks in November and later broke the news of Wagenius arrestppThe account hacks at Snowflake became one of the most widereaching cyberattacks of last year affecting ATT LendingTree Santander Bank Ticketmaster and at least 160 other companies The hackers allegedly stole huge banks of personally identifiable and sensitive corporate data that companies stored in Snowflake in part by using passwords stolen from employee computers with malware Most of the affected Snowflake customers were not using multifactor protection which Snowflake did not require of its customers at the timeppAccording to Krebs reporting following the earlier arrest of Moucka by Canadian authorities Wagenius claimed in a post on a known cybercrime forum to have access to the call logs of Vice President Kamala Harris and thenPresidentelect Donald Trump and threatened to leak all of the stolen files unless Moucka was releasedppProsecutors accuse the Snowflake hackers of stealing data that includes personal information cell phone and IMEI numbers dates of birth postal and email addresses passwords Social Security numbers governmentissued identity numbers as well as payment card and bank account numbersppWagenius was ordered on January 8 to be detained and is understood to be in custody in Washington stateppppTopicspp
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ppUS prosecutors have formally linked the arrest of a serving US Army soldier in December to a massive theft of US phone records from ATT and Verizon last yearppAuthorities arrested Cameron John Wagenius a US Army communications specialist in Texas on December 20 following a brief twopage grand jury indictment accusing the US serviceperson of two counts of unlawfully transferring confidential phone records Wagenius was later extradited to Washington stateppIn a new court filing on Friday US prosecutors confirmed that the charges against Wagenius are related to the earlier indictment of two alleged hackers Connor Moucka and John Binns who the US government accuse of multiple intrusions at cloud computing company Snowflake that saw the masstheft of data stored in its customer accounts The Snowflake customers whose data was stolen include ATT which had nearly all of its customer call records through 2024 exfiltrated from its Snowflake account and Verizon from whom a substantial cache of customer call logs was takenppUS Attorney Tessa Gorman told the Seattle court that both cases arise from the same computer intrusion and extortion and include some of the same stolen victim information and as such these cases rely on overlapping evidentiary material and legal process and arguably present common questions of law and factppThis is the first public acknowledgement by prosecutors that Wagenius charges are connected to last years breaches at cloud computing company Snowflake Security journalist Brian Krebs first reported on the link between Wagenius and the Snowflake hacks in November and later broke the news of Wagenius arrestppThe account hacks at Snowflake became one of the most widereaching cyberattacks of last year affecting ATT LendingTree Santander Bank Ticketmaster and at least 160 other companies The hackers allegedly stole huge banks of personally identifiable and sensitive corporate data that companies stored in Snowflake in part by using passwords stolen from employee computers with malware Most of the affected Snowflake customers were not using multifactor protection which Snowflake did not require of its customers at the timeppAccording to Krebs reporting following the earlier arrest of Moucka by Canadian authorities Wagenius claimed in a post on a known cybercrime forum to have access to the call logs of Vice President Kamala Harris and thenPresidentelect Donald Trump and threatened to leak all of the stolen files unless Moucka was releasedppProsecutors accuse the Snowflake hackers of stealing data that includes personal information cell phone and IMEI numbers dates of birth postal and email addresses passwords Social Security numbers governmentissued identity numbers as well as payment card and bank account numbersppWagenius was ordered on January 8 to be detained and is understood to be in custody in Washington stateppppTopicspp
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pp DOJ confirms arrested US Army soldier is linked to ATT and Verizon hacks
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